While many conservative commentators are clearly hired guns, whose early work was paid for by conservative organizations, Jonah Goldberg strikes me as a true believer.
When I was kid I felt very awkward and always on the outside. Then I went to the Mississippi School for Math and Science. I met other nerds and finally felt part of something that didn't make me awkward and excluded. Goldberg has always struck me as such a person who came to his own as a college student who fell in Reagan supporters and felt like he might have friends who understood him.
For some years now I have seen him exist in his own little bubble where it is still 1980. He certainly is not alone. There seems an entire generation of columnists and commentators who haven't seem to have acknowledge any significance in any thing that happened since 1980.
But in this article you see a bit of a wobble. There is a point when you realize your not young anymore and the world has moved on. The zeitgeist of your younger years is over and will never come back. I am not saying that Goldberg will ever come over from the dark side. I am just saying that in this article you can see a recognition. That thin tie and those shoulder pads are never coming out of the closet again. Alex P. Keaton grew up and found out he was a lot more like his dad than he thought.
When I was kid I felt very awkward and always on the outside. Then I went to the Mississippi School for Math and Science. I met other nerds and finally felt part of something that didn't make me awkward and excluded. Goldberg has always struck me as such a person who came to his own as a college student who fell in Reagan supporters and felt like he might have friends who understood him.
For some years now I have seen him exist in his own little bubble where it is still 1980. He certainly is not alone. There seems an entire generation of columnists and commentators who haven't seem to have acknowledge any significance in any thing that happened since 1980.
But in this article you see a bit of a wobble. There is a point when you realize your not young anymore and the world has moved on. The zeitgeist of your younger years is over and will never come back. I am not saying that Goldberg will ever come over from the dark side. I am just saying that in this article you can see a recognition. That thin tie and those shoulder pads are never coming out of the closet again. Alex P. Keaton grew up and found out he was a lot more like his dad than he thought.
